In March of 2024, Riley and his Delta Chi fraternity brothers took a trip to Nashville, Tennessee for their annual spring trip.

The group arrived on a bus from Columbia on Friday and that evening they all

went out enjoying Nashville's colorful entertainment district. The night

started with all the friends together but at at around 9.40 PM, Riley was kicked out

of the bar they had been drinking at, and he left the establishment alone, telling his friends

he was headed back to the hotel.

Riley's fraternity brothers never saw him again

and his disappearance sparked a very publicized search

that would end in tragedy.

Hello everybody welcome back to crime weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek Levasseer so today we're talking about Riley, which has been deep in the news for the past, I mean month basically,

all throughout March. Every time I open up, you know, Google and I have my Google alerts set there's new information

about Riley Strain and a lot of misinformation by the way but yeah no it's

it's it's it's something where I was obviously seeing it on social media.

There were certain clips coming out,

very limited footage of Riley, and it wasn't until recently when the...

And I know we're going to get in all of it tonight some

body cam footage was released and that's when I decided to weigh and just on my

preliminary kind of observations from it from my experience and what I as a both

a patrolman and a detective and that also as a human being and as someone who was a

college kid at one point all of those things just And obviously the geography that I'd put up

some Google Maps and stuff to kind of just

put out what it looked like, although it's not always

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